Album of the Day

[TrampledUnderw.]

Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan-The Goat Rodeo Sessions

[dmbetc]

Rostam - Half-Light*

[coldengrey12]

The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding

[eggsrsweet]

Frank Ocean - Blonde

Skyline To is an incredible song.

[coldengrey12]

Oxbow - Thin Black Duke*

[dmbetc]

Originally Posted by dmbetc

Rostam - Half-Light*

I was very impressed with this. I never listened to much of vampire weekend, but this album has snuck in my current top 10

[coldengrey12]

Death From Above 1979 - Outrage! Is Now*

I heard they dropped the 1979 from their name?

[coldengrey12]

The opening track, Nomad, is hitting the spot this morning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWn4zY6nqCo

[dmbetc]

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

[BTCS_JTR]

Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim

[mabell786]

Pinegrove - Cardinal
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

np: Jay-Z - 4:44*

[mabell786]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

[coldengrey12]

Queen Fiona - The Idler Wheel

[MOWJO8185]

There a lot going on in Half-Light, I'm going to have to give it some more spins. It's certainly more layered than anything by VW, and I'm guessing it will prove to be more interesting in the long run, but it certainly isn't as immediately gratifying or just fun as Vampire Weekend.

Also, after listening to Half-Light, I thought that I was going to listen to all of Rostam's work. I only got to Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam... and then got sidetracked and just listened to 4 Walkmen albums.

[coldengrey12]

Mark Knopfler - Sailing to Philadelphia*

[thebridge15]

broken social scene - you forgot it in people
the pains of being pure at heart - days of abandon

[dmbetc]

Jessica Hoop - Memories Are Now *

[mabell786]

Jay-Z - 4:44
Kanye West - The College Dropout
LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Neil Young - Hitchhiker*

np: Elliot Smith - s/t

[dpduke5173]

Michael Jackson- Off The Wall

That bass line in Get on the floor is so awesome.

[thebridge15]

king gizzard and the lizard wizard - sketches of brunswick east*

[berman1125]

Digging The War on Drugs new effort

[thebridge15]

neil young - harvest*

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

neil young - harvest*

First time? You lucky son of a gun. I'll join you.

[MOWJO8185]

I would say about once a year I just binge on all Neil Young's albums in chronological order.

[thebridge15]

I'm generally not great about listening to older albums, but neil young especially. almost never listen to his music

[mrignatious]

I usually skip a man needs a maid, but every other song on there is top notch.

[MOWJO8185]

Older artists who I can claim to be intimately familiar with their catalog beyond the hits (or at least the portion of their catalog that came out during their peak years) is probably limited to Beatles, Dylan, Neil Young, and the Grateful Dead. Maybe a couple others that I'm not thinking of.

Depending on where you draw the line at "older" you could add in U2 and R.E.M.

EDIT: Closing in on being able to add Zeppelin and Velvet Underground to that list as well I'd say.

[coldengrey12]

Dylan is a deep rabbit hole. There are main albums worth skipping entirely and, at the same time, whole collections of alternate versions/B-sides/rarities are essential.

I'd recommend basically every entry in the Bootleg Series before Empire Burlesque or Knocked Out Loaded, for example. The volume that has the alternate recordings from Self Portrait is better than the actual Self Portrait album.

[coldengrey12]

Uncle Neil's catalog is a massive beast, too.

One funny stretch in his discography is the Geffen years in the '80s. All in a row, he did an "electronic" album (Trans) followed by a rockabilly record (Everybody's Rockin') followed by a country LP (Old Ways). Geffen actually tried to sued him at that point for "not being Neil Young enough."

[dmbetc]

Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold *